a. [ad. L. anīl-is, f. anus old woman: see -ILE.] Of or like an old woman, old-womanish; imbecile.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 118. Puerile hallucinations and anile delirations.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., Ded. 1. But why do I recount those ancient and (I had almost said) anile things?
1803. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1867), I. 64. Not anile conjecture, but sound evidence of events.
1856. R. Vaughan, Ho. w. Mystics (1860), II. 251. Romanticism … grew anile in its premature decrepitude.
